News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight
The outlets say OpenAI deleted billions of ChatGPT responses and misled the court about search tools in a copyright case.
- Media outlets including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Daily News filed a motion Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court seeking 'serious sanctions' against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging 'discovery misconduct' and evidence destruction.
- OpenAI expert John Vincent 'Vinnie' Monaco 'finally revealed' in an April deposition that the company engaged in a 'campaign of deception' regarding its ability to search training datasets for copyrighted content.
- Attorney Steven Lieberman said OpenAI has been 'making misrepresentations' for two years about its search capabilities, while investigators pieced together over 80 million responses from ChatGPT users to uncover evidence.
- Plaintiffs requested attorney fees for securing 'improperly withheld' evidence and special jury instructions ensuring jurors understand OpenAI intentionally destroyed data in violation of court preservation orders.
- This trial contrasts with Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with book authors, testing whether training AI on copyrighted works constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law in a landmark case shaping the news industry.
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Independent EspañolNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times, the Daily News, and other media outlets are calling on a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, intensifying a dispute over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape...
Several newspapers accuse the company of holding back important evidence, which could probably show that ChatGPT works with the help of copyrighted news texts.
A group of newspapers, including the New York Times (NYT) and the New York Daily News, requested a Manhattan federal court on Thursday (9) to impose sanctions on OpenAI in a copyright dispute for allegedly lying to the court about its ability to search its systems for evidence that it improperly used millions of reports for artificial intelligence training (AI). The newspapers told the court that OpenAI falsely claimed that it could not search i…
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